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Monday (2000)

Monday (2000)  directed by SABU cinematography by Kazuto Sato

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Shinichi Tsutsumi ◇ マンデイ / Monday (2000)

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Love this glorious Edo or Meiji era plumpling from Japan. Source.

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Rainy day in Kamakura

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source - https://www.linguajunkie.com/japanese/japanese-phrases-sayings-health

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世界の終わりはこの店で：ネタ画像置き場

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Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii, 1994)

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Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii, 1994)

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TJ MIKELOGAN’S HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT Day 3: Foreign horror

ハウス Hausu (1977, dir. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)

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COWBOY BEBOP: KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR dir. Shinichiro Watanabe

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Satsuo Yamamoto - The Bride from Hades (1968)

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Masahiro Shinoda - Demon Pond (1979)

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Polished black and white for this outfit, pairing a beautiful katamigawari (patchwork) style kimono, and a bone-chilling nozarashi (weather-beaten skulls) obi

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海が目の前なので疲労回復に効く塩化物泉

気持ちいい♪

@指宿シーサイドホテル

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I see you talk about shadowing as a language learning method. I understand it had something to do with YT videos? Can you tell a bit more about that, how does it work and how did you come up with it?

Hi there!

Shadowing is where you listen to a language and simultaneously attempt to repeat what you hear - mimicking sounds and intonation - even if you don't understand it right away. By mimicking native speakers this way you acquire more native-like pronunciation while also (ideally) absorbing vocabulary and sentence patterns and grammar structures. I think this article explains it a lot better than I probably can!

The recommended way to do this is using audiobooks or podcasts with transcripts, but the reason I started doing this is because I would watch YT videos about useful phrases for daily life or videos about my target grammar, but I'd forget the sentences almost immediately and then have to find the motivation to sit down and rewatch an entire video, sometimes multiple times. "If only there were a way I could listen to the target sentences constantly and just practice parroting them back!" I found myself thinking. "It'd be so much more efficient than looking them up every single time or having to rewatch a whole 20-minute video!"

And then I realised I could literally just use Audacity (free audio recording/editing software!) and record from my laptop speakers myself.

So, I've been going on Youtube, watching various grammar videos and then recording sentences I want to learn from those videos. I record at natural speed first, then at 0.5x playback and then again at 0.75x playback. I then edit it together with two seconds between each recording and a repeat at each speed (plus one final repeat at normal speed). So an audio looks like:

1) Normal speed 2 second break 2) 50% speed 2 second break 3) 75% speed 2 second break 4) Normal speed 2 second break 5) 50% speed 2 second break 6) 75% speed 2 second break 7) Normal speed

Sometimes for shorter sentences, I don't bother to slow the audio down, so I'll just have it repeat 5-6 times at normal speed.

Once I've recorded everything and edited it together, I put the mp3 on my phone. I have a few different playlists (each one around 10-15 minutes in length) - some for specific grammar, some for specific situations (eg shopping, izakaya) - and I usually just stick one on repeat while I'm walking somewhere or doing some kind of menial task that doesn't otherwise engage my brain (doing dishes, ironing, making materials for work etc). And then I do my best to mimic what I'm hearing just behind the speaker (or along with the speaker). Usually the first few times I listen to a track I just try to speak along with the slower versions, or maybe just mimic the specific target structure. As I hear it more and more, eventually I can speak along with the audio word for word and focus more on my intonation.

I've found it helpful so far because it helps me learn sentences while building the muscle memory of how to say certain words/grammar. I can much more easily recall a sentence I've heard on repeat/practiced saying a hundred times than one I've heard in a video once and written down in a notebook somewhere. And if I can recall a sentence, I can substitute words using correct grammar rather than trying to figure out how to say something from scratch (and hopefully choose the correct option on the JLPT when the time comes!)

Hope that answers your question! Feel free to send more 😊

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Cyclops (1987) 『キクロプス』 Written by Hisashi Saito 斎藤久志  & Jōji Iida 飯田譲治 Directed by Jōji Iida 飯田譲治